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First Commandment, 

Exodus XX : i, 2, 3, 

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THE TEN COMMANDMENTS 



THE CONSTITUTION OF 
THE SPIRITUAL UNIVERSE. 



REV. GEO. CHAINEY. 



'* If there be a messenger with him, an inter- 
preter, one among a thousand, to show unto 
" man his uprightness: Then he is gracio-us unto 
*' him, and saith, Deliver him from going down 
" to the pit: I have found a ransom." — 



AN INTERPRETATION 



/ 



OR 




BY 



Job 33:23, 24 



CHICAGO : 

STOCKHAM PUBLISHING CO, 



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Library of Congresa: 

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Entered according to Act of Congress 
in the year 1900, 

By GEORGE CHAINEY, 
In the Office of Librarian of Congress, 
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TABLE OP CONTENTS 

Page 

A Foreword 7 

Command- 
ments. 

1 The Law of Light 19 

2 The Law of Revelation , . . , 29 

3 The Law of Knowledge. ... 39 

4 The Law of Might 49 

5 The Law of Counsel 61 

6 The Law of Understanding. . 69 
.7 The Law of Wisdom ..... 83 

8 The Law of Holiness 91 

9 The Law of the Manifest. . . 99 
10 The Law of the Unmanifest . 109 
The Law of the Law, or The One 

Thing Needful 121 

An Afterword 127 



A FOREWORD. 



OD is. He who is sup- 



posed to be unknowable, is 
ready to be known. To know 
God is to have intercourse with 
the mighty company of the 
Celestial Host in dream and 
vision without loss of conscious- 
ness or of intelligence of the 
world without. God is a mul- 
titude as well as one. He di- 
vides Himself that we may re- 
ceive Him according to our 
capacity. These divisions are 
many. The greatest, how- 
ever, are the sacred seven 
spirits of Light, Revelation, 
Knowledge, Might, Counsel, 
Understanding and Wisdom. 
These seven, operating as one, 
constitute Holiness. When 
this Holiness of the Heavens 




a shall be fully ex- 

POREWORD. pressed in th e 

Holiness or Wholeness of man's 
life in time, God will be re- 
vealed. This is God as the 
Lord — the Manifest, who is the 
neighbor or perfect grace and 
companion of God as the Un- 
manifest. These divisions are 
the greater Gods or Angels of 
every religion. The true relig- 
ion includes every expression 
of its life. This interpretation 
of the law, as embodied in the 
ten commandments, that gov- 
erns the seven-fold life of God, 
and its method of transfer into 
the life of man, is but one 
branch plucked from a mighty 
tree whereon is food for all. 
The value of these words is not 
in themselves, but in their 
power to hold a light and 
show the way to this Tree 
8 



a of L i f e . This 

tree is Revela- 
tion, bearing its twelve manner 
of fruits, the twelve gifts, rep- 
resented by the twelve tribes 
of Israel, and the twelve Apos- 
tles of the Lord. These are 
also Gods and are to be known 
and possessed as living com- 
panions in the day of the Lord. 
"And it shall come to pass in 
* < that day, that the light shall 
"not be clear, nor dark; but 
"it shall be one day which 
"shall be known to the Lord, 
"not day nor night: but it shall 
"come to pass, that at evening 
"time it shall be light." 

This is the union of the day 
and night of conscious intelli- 
gence in sleep, and intelligent 
conscious sight, hearing and 
touch of the Spiritual Host when 
awake. This is the Tree of 



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a Life, guarded 

foreword. by cherubim — 

those grasped. Cherubim are 
composite figures, representing 
the four great divisions of life 
in spirit and body, soul and 
mind. These are respectively 
the four cardinal points of East 
and West, North and South of 
the new state of existence that 
lieth four-square. To live here 
is to rightly divide and hold all 
things together of interest of 
both the natural in the spiritual 
and the spiritual in the natural. 
This equal interest of matter 
and spirit, time and eternity, 
intelligence and goodness, man 
and God, is the stone long re- 
jected of the builders, now to 
become the head of the corner. 
Here all things of the heavens 
and the earth meet and mingle. 
It is by searching out and 

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a knowing these 

FOREWORD. things that men 

live. Man's future is on earth. 
The victory over death will 
come through a state of equi- 
librium between the principle 
of waste and supply, by which 
death will be discharged from 
the service of life. The only 
power that can redeem the 
flesh from corruption and per- 
petually renew the body's life 
is the fruit of the Tree of Life, 
partaken with the leaves, that 
are for healing, for the leaves 
denote intelligence of the vision. 
This is the law that must be ful- 
filled. All shall arrive. The 
Spirit in Time will be faithful 
to the Spirit in Eternity, and 
never will the Eternal Spirit do 
for man what man can do for 
himself. "And it shall be in 
4 'that day, that living waters 



A 

FOREWORD. 



shall go out 
from Jerusalem, 



4 4 half of them toward the former 
4 4 sea, and half of them toward 
4 4 the hinder sea; in summer 
4 4 and in winter shall it be." 
In these writings the sea and 
water represent consciousness, 
the feminine state, and the land 
intelligence or the masculine. 
The former sea is the first state 
of consciousness in revelation 
from the spirit as a mystery. 
The hinder sea is the spiritual 
consciousness made one with 
the consciousness of the body's 
life. The summer is the heat 
of the mind. and the winter the 
white purity of the soul's per- 
fect goodness in the union of 
each in all and of all in each, of 
man in God and of God in man. 
Then will God be as visible in 
all the objective world as He is 



a realizable in the 

FOREWORD. . ., , 

spiritual. 

This is the goal. This is the 
purpose God purposed when He 
resolved to make man in His 
own image. This purpose has 
never changed, nor ever halted. 
We are speeding to this end, as 
swiftly as justice to both God 
and man will permit. The only 
evil is the absence of the spirit- 
ual from the natural, or of the 
natural from the spiritual. 
When each shall be filled with 
the other, the perfect law will 
be fulfilled in the perfect beati- 
tudes of grace. Then evil will 
be no more. 

The ten great commandments 
are the constitution of the spir- 
itual universe. They are the 
absolute conditions under which 
the Divine Being passes into the 
nature of man. They are the 

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a discovery of God 

FOREWORD. ~ j j 

to God. God 
here communes with Himself 
and reveals to each division of 
His own Spirit the destiny im- 
posed upon each by virtue of its 
relation to the whole. The first 
seven commandments concern 
the Sacred Seven of Light, Rev- 
elation, Knowledge, Might, 
Counsel, Understanding and 
Wisdom. The eighth pertains 
to the Holy Spirit — the full oc- 
tave. The ninth is the law of 
the Lord — the Manifest. The 
tenth the law of God the Un- 
manifest. They contain the 
whole law that is to be further 
expanded and illustrated in the 
method of its work. In them 
is the very essence of the full- 
ness of life and knowledge. 



i 4 



The Law of Light. 



THE law op The first command 
L,GHT - prescribes the 

law of Light. Man cannot re- 
ceive God in His fullness at the 
beginning. So God divides 
Himself for the purpose of 
transmission. God is both the 
one and the many. Of the 
many, the first God must be 
the operation of the Spirit as 
Light. The Lord who speaks 
is Jehovah. He is the First and 
the Last. He lightens from the 
Heavens and rains upon the 
earth. He makes or causes all 
things to come to pass. He de- 
livers the spiritual Host of liv- 
ing truths from the narrow state 
of mind and brings them out 
into the larger life of the mu- 
tual relations of spirit and 
body, soul and mind. Of the 
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THE LAW OF first, the begin- 
LIGHT. ning of all things 

in Light, it is said: "Thou 
shalt have no other Gods be- 
fore me." The spiritual life in 
man can know nothing com- 
pletely at the first. All Divine 
life in man begins with the first 
flash of light, dividing itself from 
the darkness, prompting to wor- 
ship and to seek the source and 
cause of life. Before this, man 
has no place in the world of life, 
save in the mere form that has 
been evolved and prepared for 
such awakening and reception 
of the varied intelligence with 
consciousness that makes the 
character called man . There is 
no other beginning in either the 
race or individual. No one can 
climb up by any other way. No 
one by force or intellectual seek- 
ing can enter into the later qual- 

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THE LAW OP ities of God>s life 
LIGHT. who does not ap- 

proach them through simple 
religion. 

Light as Religion, comes be- 
fore any philosophy or creed. 
Without Religion there can be 
no other acquaintance with God. 
He who is not religious in this 
primary sense is temporarily 
color-blind, or like one who is 
without any ear for music. To 
take the word of such concern- 
ing God and the soul, is like 
taking the judgment of one coi- 
or-blind in art, or appointing 
one without an ear for harmony 
as a teacher or critic of music. 
Such defects are not irremedia- 
ble. In another embodiment 
the missing part will be found. 
All shall arrive. Time will not 
fail until that which is lost is 
found. But there can be no 



THE LAW or great develop- 

LIGHT. . - . 1 

ment in spiritual 

life that does not rest upon sim- 
ple religion . ' 1 Thou shalt have 
no other Gods before me." This 
is the first and the last. This is 
the first quality and in its com- 
pleteness the highest. There is 
nothing superior to this feeling 
of the heart in its hunger for the 
cause and source of all life. All 
the strange ways of religion will 
be justified at the last. Man is 
to know and approve in religion 
of the very nature of God v , 
Those who criticize and reject 
religious light and feeling as a 
moral defect, or as the survival 
of barbaric ignorance and su- 
perstition may in other things 
do good work. But for them 
there is no further advance; no 
higher ideal or God, until they 
have entered the kingdom of 

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THE LAW OP Light and learned 
LIGHT. tQ h un g er an( J 

thirst for God, as the source of 
all life. It is only by much 
ardent devotion in the spirit of 
Light, worshipping God, even 
in the darkness of the mind, 
that we are prepared to enter 
the larger cycles of God's life in 
man. In the finality of Light 
man will know that the One in- 
cludes the AIL Then Religion 
will embrace and hold all Re- 
ligions. Then all the Mighty 
Host of spiritual forms will be 
the messengers of the One God 
and Father of all. The com- 
plete man can have no God that 
is not the God of Gods and Light 
of every enlightenment. Such 
will have interest in every form 
of religion that has touched the 
hearts of men with wonder, love ^ 
or praise towards a power 



THE LAW OP greater than 
LIGHT. themselves. The 

most exclusive is the only in- 
clusive. The complete man will 
see that each changing ideal in 
Religion has been beautiful in 
its own place and time. He 
will see that such change must 
continue until in all our world 
all shall see and know, know 
and see the All in the One and 
the One in the All : Man in 
God and God in Man. 




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The Law of Revelation. 



Second Commandment. 

Exodus XX : 4, 5, 6. 

Wixon Shalt not mafce wnto thee 
ant) graven image, ox any Hfeeness 
of anything that is in geaven atwve, 
0t that is in the earth heneath, ot 
that is in the water under the earth: 
©tow Shalt not Uw Aoxcn thyself 
to them, nox serve them: f0r $ the 
l^rd thy $0d am a jeatous $0d t 
visiting the iniquity 0< the fathers 
nyon the ehildren wnt0 the third anb 
f0urth generati0n 0* them that hate 
me; and shewing merey unto iftmt- 
sands of them that tove me, and 
fteep my e0mmandments* 



THE LAW OF cr*~„A 
m ^^..^ 1 n e second 
REVELATION. 

command in this 
constitution of the spiritual uni- 
verse relates to the Spirit of 
Revelation. While Revelation 
is the greatest of all mysteries, 
even this mystery is finally to 
be added to the kingdom of the 
known. While the beauty of 
the form of Revelation is the 
beauty of absolute perfection, 
such beauty is only to be fully 
enjoyed after man has found it 
to be but the ever changing ex- 
pression of the dear life of a 
personal God. Revelation is 
never a fixed quantity. It is a 
language perpetually expanding 
by the drawing out of the things 
of Eternity and the drawing in 
of the things of Time. After 
this there will be still a law of 



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THE LAW OF change and ex- 
REVELATION. pansion in the 
growing capacity of man to ex- 
plore still further into the depths 
of the infinite love and wisdom 
of God. While Revelation is 
full of the things in heaven and 
earth and of the water, or con- 
sciousness, beneath man's in- 
telligence, there are none of 
these to which the Spirit of 
Revelation can say: "Be my 
complete embodiment^' There 
may be the highest perfection 
in the unity of spirit and body 
or of soul and mind, and yet 
then the capacity of life will be 
subject to eternal growth, and 
its attainments stretch far be- 
yond the power of this might- 
iest of all languages to reveal 
in any one form. 

(The mightiest speech of Rev- 
elation is the symbolism of the 
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THE LAW or cherubim—those 
REVELATION. grasped( com . 

posite forms that represent the 
four fold nature of spirit and 
body, soul and mind. But these 
are only the guardians of the 
Tree of Life. Should these be 
converted into a creed, a definite 
conception or form exhausting 
all perfection, we would but give 
our affections to the doorkeep- 
ers of the mansion of life, in- 
stead of passing within to the 
company of the King and Queen 
and the feast of life's abundance 
of all good things. 

He who causes all things to 
be, is a jealous God. True jeal- 
ousy is never cruel. Divine 
jealousy holds in reserve the 
best for the best. Only thq^ 
fullest and most universal in- 
telligence can have the joy of 
the cosmic consciousness. Be- 



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THE LAW OP fore an y one can 

REVELATION, know the fullness 
of the Unmanifest he must be 
true to the law of the Mani- 
fest. Those that hate and turn 
away from the great labor to 
know and to do the will of God 
must suffer disappointment and 
affliction, until they learn to love 
all the way as well as the end 
thereof. 

The imperfection of every- 
thing that is eternal rests upon 
the long travail of the Spirit in 
Time. This must continue until 
the third or fourth generation. 
Nothing is perfect until it has 
reached the fourfold state. 
There must be at-one-ment of 
spirit and body, and of soul and 
mind. Nothing short of this 
can content the mighty love of 
God. God is jealous for His 
children. He will not allow 



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THE LAW OF them even to 
REVELATION, cheat themselves. 
Whenever we are content with 
the part, He sends into the ob- 
ject of our love, some stroke 
of affliction that reveals its 
incompleteness and causes us to 
take up our journey to the end 
purposed for us from the begin- 
ning. These are the mercies 
that are shown to those who love 
and keep God's commandments. 
The great Spirits of the Elohim 
never bow the knee to Baal — 
lord or master. They never 
force upon man anything. 
These all love and revere the 
long travail of the Spirit in Time 
to bring forth the perfection of 
God in full honor and justice to 
man. No matter how often we 
may think to transcend this law, 
the great love and jealousy of 
God for our final good will find 

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THE LAW OF us out. The 
REVELATION. true heart of God 

will never be content until He 
has bestowed His very best 
upon all the worlds that He has 
created. 




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The Law of Knowledge. 



Third Commandment, 

Exodus XX : 7. 

®h<ro shalt not take the name 0( 
the ^0rd thy (Soft in vain; fat the 
ICavd trill not hald him flttiltle^ 
that tafeeih his name in vain* 



THE LAW OP 
KNOWLEDGE, 



The third com- 
mand of this great 



constitution of the Spiritual 
Universe pertains to the Spirit 
of Knowledge. The name is the 
character. The character is 
never represented by word 
alone. No fullness of speech, 
out of the fullness of conscious- 
ness, will ever express the per- 
fect character of truth. While 
Spiritual Knowledge is pre-em- 
inently a state of consciousness, 
it is not perfect until the mys- 
tery of life is fully married to 
the strength of intelligence. 
There may be an intellectual 
grasp of things in their uni- 
versal relations that is not one 
with life, as well as a fullness of 
consciousness apart from the 
unity of intelligence. Neither of 



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THE LAW OF these states can 
KNOWLEDGE. be rega rded as 
guiltless. Each is crooked or 
onesided. The work of the 
Spirit of Knowledge will not be 
complete until the spiritual 
state of knowing is married to 
that which comes of the long 
labor of man to search out the 
natural law and facts of the ma- 
terial world. 

There is a Divine Realism 
as well as a Divine Idealism. 
There is a possible speech that 
is true to the material facts as 
well as to the eternal beauty 
and glory of the moral sense. 
Moral beauty in its utmost 
strength and perfection alone, 
without intelligence, will rust 
and crumble away in time like 
the strength of iron. We shall 
never be immortally strong until 
God's strength touches man's 
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THE LAW or strength. When 

KNOWLEDGE. , u , A 

the world seems 

to live in us and we feel to 
know, we do not know in the 
perfect sense, unless this feel- 
ing of the poet is allied to ex- 
actness and loyalty to the laws 
of chemistry, the facts of grav- 
itation, the geography and his- 
tory of the material world. 
Such knowledge comes both by 
Time and Eternity. It is of all 
man's striving as well as of 
God's giving. 

As Revelation increases man 
will at first incline to trust this 
great and beautiful speech too 
much for knowledge. The 
forms of men, the facts of his- 
tory, the elements of nature, 
and the physical divisions of our 
globe will live therein; and yet 
these things cannot be trusted 
from the material standpoint 
41 



THE LAW Or more than 

KNOWLEDGE. , J 

the science, 

geography, and history of our 
earlier Revelations. This is the 
thing that has to be learned in 
regard to Knowledge. This is 
the growth in man for which 
this Spirit must wait before the 
spontaneous* utterance of the 
Spirit's life can be perfectly free 
of guilt. € When we have fully 
absorbed nature; when we know 
the limitations of both the in- 
tellectual and conscious divi- 
sions of life, and have brought 
the two together into a just and 
equal marriage, then will the 
poetic beauty of the heavens«in 
spontaneous song clothe the 
dry facts of material knowledge 
with the moral beauty and 
sweetness of the soul's life. 

These are the laws of God 
that must be kept, because 
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THE LAW OP t hey are the lim- 
KNOWLEDGE, • . /. xL 

1 1 a 1 1 o n s that 

God has proscribed to each di- 
vision of His Own Spirit in the 
interest of the whole. To ap- 
ply these to man's actions alone 
is but the playful ignorance of 
our world's childhood. As soon 
as we become men we shall put 
away these childish things. 




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The Law of Might. 



Fourth Commandment, 

Exodus XX : 8, 9, 10, 11. 

%mmbtt the $M%t\% day, to 
feeep it ta% $xx ftnp tfmlt thou 
UUntmA to nil thy mxk: §ut 
the seventh day %& the gMbnih #f 
the z&mA thy <&0&: in it thou stolt 
not atty ttwfe, thou, n<w thy 
mx thy daughter thy iiMttt, 
mx thy maidwwimt, thy rattle, 
mx thy ^tt^wn^v that i$ within thy 
ptes: in $%x days the gfomt 
nwtfe heaven and earth, the #ea, and 
alt that in them i$ f m& tested the 
seventh day : whe*efwe the 
trt*##*A the i*ahhath day and hal- 
lowed it 



THE LAW OP The fourth com- 
mand of this unal- 
terable constitution of the Spir- 
itual Universe governs the con- 
duct of the Spirit of Might. The 
usual idea of the Sabbath has 
about as much to do with this 
constitution as children playing 
at marbles. The One Labor 
along whose path of arduous 
toil Divine Love has placed 
bowers of rest, is the Mighty 
Labor to bring the heavens and 
earth, eternity and time, God 
and man, together into one all 
comprehensive, divided, and yet 
undivided intelligence and con- 
sciousness of being. While this 
is the task of each division, it is 
in the central life of the fourth 
— the connecting link of the 
upper and lower triads — that 

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THE LAW OP the greatness 
MIGHT. of the task is 

found. The word sabbath spir- 
itually means host. On the 
fourth day are made sun, moon, 
and stars. The mind of God 
consecrated the seventh day to 
rest, because 4 ' in six days the 
Lord made heaven and earth, 
the sea and all that in them is, 
and rested the seventh day." 
The sixth day is the toil to un- 
derstand. After anything to be 
done is clearly understood the 
mind has rest in its creative 
task. 

The rest of the Divine Mind 
is the perfect adaptation of the 
heavens to the earth. Each is 
made for the other. Without 
the inception and stimulating 
power of Revelation there would 
be no intelligence. Without 
intelligence to search, to ob- 
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THE LAW OP S e r ve, and finally 

MIGHT. x i i 

to clearly com- 
prehend, the life of vision would 
but waste its sweetness upon 
a barren desert. Without the 
land, the great sea would be but 
a shoreless waste and empty 
void; while withoubthe sea from 
which to draw the treasures of 
rain, the land would remain but 
a vast and treeless desert of 
barren rocks and drifting sands; 
so would be intelligence and 
consciousness without each 
other. So would man be with- 
out God and God without man. 

While these great divisions 
are, in the ultimate perfection 
of all things, to perfectly know 
each other, there is to be no vio- 
lation of this mutual relation and 
independence. Along the path 
of this toil there will be periods 
when the heavens seem silent; 
5i 



THE LAW Of anc * °thers when 
MIGHT. the intellectual 

life is wholly subdued by the 
mighty force of Revelation. 
But from time to time the per- 
fect relation and ministry of the 
two will be seen and known. 
Then will Rest be found. Then 
will the spirit of man be as the 
Spirit of God in its quiet con- 
fidence and certitude of the final 
good and perfect salvation of 
every soul. 

The idea of the Sabbath even 
in its literalness is never one of 
complete cessation. Works of 
necessity have always been al- 
lowed. The true Sabbath is a 
time when man works of neces- 
sity. Destiny and exertion have 
come so close together that they 
act in perfect concert. The ' ' I 
ought " has seen and embraced 
the "I would. " The pain of 
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THE LAW OP dut y haS been 
MIGHT. swallowed up in 

the life of pleasure. The day 
and the night, the heavens and 
the earth, have come so close 
together that there is no fur- 
ther struggle to come into touch 
with each other. Effort has 
ceased to be painful in its en- 
tire spontaneity. While toil 
and suffering remain they are 
still states of rest and quiet 
waiting upon God in Time, with 
equal confidence of God in 
Eternity. Everything that is 
mightily understood adds its 
quota to this growing rest. In 
the green tree there is no fur- 
ther struggle to draw life from 
the dead. 

Sons and daughters, maid- 
servants and manservants, 
states of intelligence and con- 
sciousness both of the spiritual 

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THE LAW OP a nd the natural, 
have rest. There 
is rest even with the cat- 
tle, the further toil to under- 
stand. There is rest also for 
the stranger — the ecclesiastical 
state in Religion. In the right 
relation of the heavens and the 
earth these cease to strive with 
violence, reaching to a feeling 
of confidence and universality 
of expectation touching the 
final good. Though Revelation 
bring pain of reconstruction 
it is welcomed with gladness. 
Though the moral and intel- 
lectual nature set loftier heights 
in front to be scaled, it is with 
calm confidence that the sum- 
mit is attainable. Though our 
rest is divided by many enlarge- 
ments of the creative power, 
each cycle brings us nearer to 
the everlasting Rest remaining 

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THE LAW OF to the people of 
MIGHT. God. This Rest 

will come when all the Liv- 
ing Host of the heavens have 
place in the normal and intelli- 
gent self-consciousness of the 
most highly cultivated state of 
man upon earth. This is the 
goal towards which all our feet 
are set in the ways of God. 
When we stand on the summit 
of Time overlooking Eternity, 
our feet will no more know 
weariness and our hands will 
never again fall listless to our 
sides. The things of the Spirit 
and of nature will fit so closely 
together that each will contin- 
ually renew and keep perfect 
the life of the other. 



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The Law of Counsel. 



Fifth Commandment. 

Exodus XX : 12. 

ponour thy father and thy moth- 
er: that thy 4ay$ may belong upon 
the land tvhich the Xortl thy (5ot\ 
giveth thee. 



THE LAW OF T . 
COUNSEL * n ' sweet coun - 

sels of God the 

law of existence is revealed. 
Such life, in truth, will have but 
a short life, unless it is honor- 
able both to the heavens and 
the earth. Should God speak 
to man direct, writing His will 
every night in fiery letters across 
the sky, He would glorify Rev- 
elation but dishonor man's in- 
telligence. In communing 
with Himself, God has discov- 
ered the just relation between 
Himself and all men. The im- 
mortal state of truth must in- 
clude alike the fullness of man's 
intelligence and of Divine Re- 
vealing. Nothing can remain 
stable that has not reached to 
the dual state. W e must have, 
at last, the faculty to live in 

6l 



THE LAW or the vision of 
COUNSEL. God and at the 

same time attend to the busi- 
ness of the material world. If 
we sacrifice the common for the 
uncommon, the profane for the 
sacred, we have not yet learned 
the law of immortal life. At- 
tention to every earthly duty; 
prudence, foresight, and care 
for material interests are also 
sacred duties when married to 
spiritual devotion. 

The land that God has given 
to be finally possessed of the 
spiritual people, is the earthly 
state found in the heavens, and 
the heavenly naturalized in the 
earthly. Nothing is final that 
is wanting on either side. The 
conditioned is to be made bear- 
able by the absolute and the 
absolute understandable by the 
conditioned. This is the land 
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THE LAW OP flowing with 
COUNSEL. .„ j , 

milk and honey. 

This is the state out of which 
all the earlier law and onesided 
degrees of Religion are to be 
cast. We must learn to do our 
best and at the same time have 
perfect trust in the help of God. 
We must learn to seek God in 
the natural as well as in the 
spiritual. The consciousness 
of earth is the wife of the intel- 
ligence of the heavens, and the 
consciousness of the heavens 
the spouse of the intelligence 
of the earth. Each is dual. 
This mother is both above and 
below. While we have two 
fathers and two mothers they 
are in the ultimate but one. 
The Divine law rests upon the 
equality of the male andfemale. 
Anything short of equal honor 
between these is of a mortal 
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THE LAW or strain. This 
COUNSEL. equal balancing 
of all things will be the ripe 
fruit of Time and of Eternity. 
God honors man by giving to 
him the labor of Time, and man 
honors God in giving to God all 
that is forever, From God 
comes all inception. He is the 
primeval and the final, the be- 
ginning and the end. That 
which lies between pertains to 
the co-operative life between 
God and man. Nothing shall 
reach the end that is not blessed 
alike of God and man, honor- 
ing both father and mother. 



6 4 



The Law of Understanding. 



Sixth Commandment. 

Exodus XX : 13. 

®hou jtolt not feilt* 



THE LAW OF There are 

UNDERSTANDING, many de- 
grees of spiritual life that are 
born to slay and dispossess. 
But those who live by the 
sword shall also die thereby, 
Those that slay shall also be 
slain. But not so the true 
Understanding. To this por- 
tion of Himself, in its awaken- 
ing in the life of humanity, 
God has said the word: ' 4 Thou 
shalt not kill." Those who 
understand, looking out over 
the world of ideas and feelings 
and seeing those that are to be 
slain, see at the same time 
other states and feelings, that 
are following swift on their 
footsteps with the Divine im- 
pulse to slay; for thus is evil 
given to evil. 

69 



THE LAW OP While Un- 
UNDERSTANDiNG, derstanding 

is commanded not to kill, yet it 
is a great warrior. The victories 
of peace are greater than those 
of war. Those who seek no 
proselytes often win the most 
converts to what they teach. 
Those who bide fast in their 
own convictions, yet draw all 
men unto them. While this 
Spirit never attacks it is ever 
ready for self defense. The 
one thing most essential to 
Understanding is the sacred- 
ness of the individual. There 
is nothing essential in asso- 
ciated life that is inconsistent 
with personal freedom of inter- 
course between man and God. 
In the laws of the world the 
right of self-defense is regarded 
as above the law. He who 
kills another in preserving his 
70 



THE LAW OP own life from 
UNDERSTANDING. violence is 

not regarded as one who slays. 
Nations in the defense of the 
aggregate interests of a people 
individually and collectively, 
take life in war and in the ad- 
ministration of justice. This 
is not to kill, but to make alive. 
He who dies in battle is not 
slain. On whichever side, the 
right or wrong, the warrior 
falls, he is not murdered. Such 
are so full of life that for them 
death is but a swift change 
from one form of consciousness 
to another. Such deaths are 
removed far from those that 
are slain without thought or 
realization that death was near. 

The ideas and feelings that 
are slain in voluntary and conse- 
crated defense of right and 
truth, fall with honor; while 
71 



THE LAW OF those that are 

UNDERSTANDING. , . 

slain unex- 
pectedly, by intrusion of those 
who would have all men think 
and feel alike, die before they are 
ready and these are murdered. 

The true Understanding will 
never proselyte. Those who 
understand will nobly serve 
truth, but never will they seek 
to make converts thereto. 
What they have is freely given 
for all to take or to let alone, 
and those who pass by, preoc- 
cupied with other things, are 
also the children of God as well 
as those who find help and 
sweetest consolation therein. 

Many cannot teach save by 
making disciples. The work of 
those who understand is to set 
men free and to turn each to the 
light that burns within. The 
true teacher, when he shall ar- 
72 



, THE LAW OP rive, will have 

UNDERSTANDING. r n 

no followers. 

Those who claim to follow will 
be his worst foes. While the 
Spirit that gives Understanding 
is non-aggressive yet is it strong- 
ly armed against aggression. 
To resist intrusion is to be a true 
friend to those who intrude. 
There is no true health or se- 
curity as long as man does not 
reverence the sacred principle 
of personality. In the crowded 
places of progress each should 
be protected in this respect. 
The jostling and dispossession 
of the crowd wherein each 
struggles for himself is heedless 
of this sacred right. When peo- 
ple go in crowds the one is lost 
in the many. There will be no 
crowding nor haste nor pushing 
away of others in a world of 
understanding. The nations 

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THE LAW Or wiH come 

UNDERSTANDING. . . . 

into interna- 
tional agreements, that will 
make the most of their com- 
bined powers and yet leave to 
each the fullest freedom for self- 
development. Association for 
any purpose will be brought into 
harmony with personal whole- 
ness and integrity and every 
man will see in each the rep- 
resentation of all. The under- 
standing will give place to the 
fullness of all natural and spirit- 
ual activity. 

No one can communicate 
understanding. While mind 
may instruct mind, Under- 
standing cannot communicate. 
This is always personal. It is 
a state of both consciousness 
and intelligence. It is the con- 
sciousness of the unconscious. 
It is as free from effort or com- 



74 



THE LAW OP municable- 
UNDERSTANDING. Al _ 

ness as the 

beating of the heart. You un- 
derstand because you must. It 
is that which is and cannot be 
denied, nor affirmed for another. 
This does not kill. It never in- 
trudes. It never slays. It comes 
into possession only where there 
is no one else to make a claim. 
It takes the empty house from 
which the one-sided spirits have 
gone. It never comes to the 
selfish, to the irreverent nor to 
the undeveloped in natural ex- 
cellence and completeness of 
nature. It cannot be acquired 
by any lust for the spiritual 
that ignores anything that is 
natural. It depends upon no 
trick, no practices, no consent 
of mind. It comes at the right 
moment as the result of all that 
is noblest and best like the per- 
75 



THE LAW OP 
UNDERSTANDING. 



fume of the 
flower or the 



ripeness of the peach. It is a 
power to sleep and to keep 
awake; to wake and yet to 
sleep; to live and to let live; to 
act and yet remain passive; to 
see and to know; to know and 
to see. 

The Spirit of the Under- 
standing is the Physician of 
God. It is the healing or 
making whole that is Divine. 
It is the awakening into con- 
sciousness of the unconscious. 
This cannot slay nor be slain. 
This gives time and place for 
every divided state. For it, 
the sun stands still and the 
moon goes not down. It no 
more intrudes upon others than 
does the silent spirit that tends 
to the beating of the heart. 
While those states of mind 



76 



THE LAW OP that try to 

UNDERSTANDING. , , . 

break in upon 
this power may be slain this 
Spirit is guiltless of the deed. 
The blood of those who do vio- 
lence here is upon their own 
heads. Then the all-healing 
work of Raphael, Physician of 
God, will be complete. 

In the finality of truth there 
can be neither slaying nor slain. 
The immortal truth will be the 
sure harbinger of man's immor- 
tality upon earth. 



77 



The Law of Wisdom. 



Seventh Commandment. 

Exodus XX : 14. 

$h0u turt mnmit %MUx%. 



the law or The best is for 
WISDOM. the best. The 
wisdom of heaven is for the 
wisdom of the earth. The per- 
fect life of the skies can only be 
a destroyer to all that is imper- 
fect below. The absolute law 
that governs the life of wisdom 
is expressed in the word that 
may not be broken, ' 'Thou 
shalt not commit adultery.'' 
The word of the Lord may not 
be broken . What God has said 
must come to pass. God never 
transgresses His own nature. 
Other Spirits, like Knowledge 
or Revelation, may commit 
adultery. These may be re- 
lated to states of consciousness 
belonging to others. The Spirit 
of wisdom is only known by its 
own consciousness. 

83 



THE LAW OP Wisdom is by 
WISDOM. j ts ver y na t U re, 

a unit. It is in itself an abso- 
lute identity of the cosmic con- 
sciousness with universal in- 
telligence. It is the union of 
Time and of Eternity, of mat- 
ter and of spirit. The material 
life is long a stranger to the 
spirit. Time is long inhospit- 
able to the Eternal. Time may 
not know the full secret of 
Eternity as long as there is any- 
thing to be achieved in its own 
department. God has set metes 
and bounds about the divisions 
of His own nature. Each is 
governed by its own law. 
These laws are such as make to- 
gether a perfect whole. These 
are the sum of all excellence. 
To know the meaning of these 
ten words of life is to know the 
general meaning of existence. 
8 4 



THE LAW Of 3 In the evolution 
WISDOM. of reIigious Iife 

the idea is never wholly con- 
crete, never a perfect har- 
mony of the within and the 
without, until Wisdom's rest is 
found. Here no strife can en- 
ter. Here is no envy of or seek- 
ing what belongs to another. 
In Light our consciousness may 
be seized by Revelation; or in 
Revelation it may be invaded 
by Knowledge, while the Intel- 
ligence still clings to Light or 
Revelation. Here the apples 
of discord are eaten. In the 
life of Wisdom all is peace and 
harmony. No sounds of war 
are heard. Every man sits 
under his own vine and fig tree. 
The things revealed within are 
one with the consciousness 
without. Wisdom is no prop- 
agandist. It makes no prose- 
85 



THE LAW or lytes. It is sat- 
WISDOM. isfied with its 

own. It is the child of the 
heavens and of the earth. It 
holds the lyre and pours fourth 
melodious song. It knows the 
past and the future. It beholds 
the relation of every part to the 
whole. There is fullness above 
and fullness below. There is a 
consciousness of the uncon- 
scious and an unconsciousness 
of the conscious. Things once 
wholly unknown become known 
and the things known have rest 
in the unknown. 



86 



The Law of Holiness. 



Eighth Commandment. 

Exodus XX : 15. 

£ftcru tflurtt not stint 



the law or TheLawofHoli- 

HOLINESS. TT71 , 

ness, or Whole- 
ness, is perfect contentment. 
This Spirit is the full octave. 
All is given and all is received. 
The Law of its life is expressed 
in the words: ''Thou shalt not 
steal." This is what God has 
said to His own strength. In 
the Holy Spirit there is no try- 
ing to do today what belongs 
to the tomorrow — no trying to 
take from another what has not 
been honestly bought and paid 
for in the great law of universal 
exchange. In Holiness, intel- 
ligence beholds itself in the 
qualities of the soul, and these 
in turn look with joy upon their 
own reflection in the strength 
of the mind. The Spiritual is 
seen in the material and the 



91 



THE LAW or material in the 
HOLINESS. Spiritual. For 
long such wholeness seemed un- 
known to men. We are con- 
tinually disturbing the serenity 
of the present moment, by try- 
ing to penetrate into that which 
is to come. There is a possi- 
ble contentment and satisfac- 
tion with every moment, with- 
out being false to, or in any way 
neglectful of, the law of growth. 

The Holy Spirit is called 
Gabriel — Strength of God. The 
Strength of God is in the One- 
ness of past and future, with 
the present moment. When 
man shall reach to this great 
accord between Time and Eter- 
nity, he will feel himself to beat 
once in the center and the cir- 
cumference, and in perfect 
equality of mind and affections 
towards both the attained and 



92 



THE LAW OF the attainable. 
HOLINESS. W hat has been, 
was good; what is now, is bet- 
ter; and what shall be will be 
best of all. 

Holiness does not the less en- 
joy the good and the better, be- 
cause there is a best. In this 
Spirit there is true order and 
relationship; and Time has full 
respect with Eternity. It is 
this Spirit of true contentment 
that must complete even the 
work of the Spirit in the long 
travail of Time. This One 
must come after and lead into 
all truth of both the Manifest 
and the Unmanifest. 

To be in touch with this 
strength of God is to be strong, 
cheerful, serene, nonchalant, 
persevering, and yet restful; 
careless and gay and yet earnest 
and thoughtful. It is only in 

93 



THE LAW OF 

HOLSNSSS. 



such company 
with God's 



strength that man truly finds 
his own, and does works of 
wholeness and finality that take 
from none butgive to all. This 
strength is in any life a secret 
and ever present source of com- 
fort, and so this Spirit is called 
also — The Comforter. 

He who would thread the 
long pass over the heaped up 
mountains of the fullness of the 
Spirit's life must carry with him 
this knowledge of the resting 
places by the way. There is 
such rest after every great 
achievement in the labor to un- 
derstand and be wise in the ways 
of God. Blessed are all those 
who can be glad today without 
doing wrong to the tasks of to- 
morrow. These do not steal. 



94 



The Law of the Manifest. 



Ninth Commandment. 



Exodus XX : 16. 

©turn tfftalt twt hmx UUt witnm 



THE LAW OP n i s the Mani- 
THE MANIFEST. ^ ^ j g the 

neighbor of the Unmanifest. 
The Life of God in Time may 
not bear a false witness against 
its neighbor the Life of God in 
Eternity. The One shall love 
the Other as Himself. 

There can be no final satis- 
faction or perfection in the 
heart of man until all thatg:an 
be known or seen within shall 
be equally seen and known 
without. But the method of 
this knowing and seeing must 
not do away with the necessity 
of human toil. We must not 
flee this task of drawing out 
until it is achieved as much by 
the labor of Time as by its own 
inherent tendency and seeking 
for visible expression. 

99 



THE LAW OP W h e n t h e 

THE MANIFEST, heavens press 
upon us for interpretation, we 
must not lay aside the necessity 
of human toil. While the be- 
ginnings and endings are with 
God, man must have share in 
all that lies between. 

The labor of the Spirit in Time 
is by no means complete in the 
manifestation of the Eternal 
Thought of God. That would 
leave all that is best but a cold 
and dry abstraction. How- 
ever beautiful life may be within 
we must have an equal beauty 
without. 

All the work that is being 
done in the world, for material 
improvement and perfection of 
things of use and beauty, is an 
essential ingredient of our final 
state of perfection. The Spirit 
that is born of God has also 



IOO 



THE LAW OF descended into 
THE MANIFEST, the lowest 
parts of our earth or natural in- 
telligence. God is working in 
all the mole -like gropings of 
scientific investigation as truly 
as He is descending upon us in 
the bright visions of the trans- 
forming heavens. 

The final state of perfection 
must include many Octaves of 
Holiness. Every division of in- 
telligence and consciousness 
must be slowly assimilated 
each to the other before we 
can know the full unity of the 
heavens and the earth. 

Spiritual perfection alone 
would be only a Barmecidal or 
imaginary feast. Though the 
vision is real and these forms 
are the Eternal Thoughts of 
God yet are they to both God 
and man imperfect until they 

IOI 



THE LAW or are married to 
THE MANIFEST, U1 
every possible 

grace and material counterpart 

that is subject to improvement 

in time. But Time is faithful. 

The Spirit will not abandon its 

task. 

The knowledge of heaven 
and all its meanings could not 
content us without our own 
earth evolved to perfection and 
all its dear familiar ways. 

God shall have true witness. 
He shall be expressed in the 
perfection of form as well as of 
mind. He shall be seen in all 
that is natural and material as 
well as in all that is spiritual and 
celestial. Never will content 
abide in our hearts until human 
grace and beauty honor and 
clothe the Spirit, even as Divine 
Grace and Beauty honor and 
shine through our human lives. 

102 



THE LAW OP God shall have 
THE MANIFEST, glory in the 
spirit and body, the soul and 
mind. He shall be seen and 
known in all that is. He has 
created nothing in vain. Every 
hour of toil and every pain 
endured have added something 
to the Manifestation of the Di- 
vine. 

The Glory of the Manifest is 
that it is the glory — not of God 
or of one life of miraculous 
beauty and superhuman 
achievement — but that it is at 
once the sum of God's giving 
and of all man's striving and 
suffering to receive and embody, 
in both form and substance, in 
all the many lives and genera- 
tions of our great human broth- 
erhood. 

To come to God through 
Christ the Lord, is to grow 
103 



the law of God - like by 

THE MANIFEST. . , , ll4 , 
virtue of all the 

long travail of each in all and 
all in each. By this striving 
man grows into both human 
and Divine fellowship. There 
is no other way, truth, or life. 
Everything less than this is a 
false witness. "As for me, I 
will behold thy face in right- 
eousness : I shall be satisfied, 
when I awake with thy like- 
ness." 




104 



The Law of the Unmanifest. 



Tenth Commandment. 

Exodus XX: 17. 

twwt, than ^fealt «0t rawt 
ttty ttrtflhftoMtV wife, not fete ntan- 
wwant, nar fete maiflmviitrt, na* 
fete ax, turc fete jww, nat any thing 
tfeat te tfejj neiflfeltam^ 



THE LAW OP THE The tenth and 
UNMANIPEST. ■% . , 

last command 

of this perfect constitution of the 
spiritual world pertains to the 
Unmanifest. Here the neigh- 
bor is the Manifest. God in 
Eternity will not set aside any 
of the labor of the Spirit in the 
travail of Time. 

God is jealous for man's per- 
fection. This is the jealousy of 
Infinite Love. The only way 
in which God can satisfy this 
love is to give to man every pos- 
sible honor and glory in the 
work of creation. 

God could not create in any 
other way. Having all Him- 
self, He will keep that all con- 
cealed until man has received 
and had part in the growth of 
every true excellence in himself. 
109 



THE LAW OP THE All the hiding 
UNMANIEEST. of God and 
all the long travail of the world 
and all the labors and sorrows 
of human existence, as well as 
its joys and possessions, are the 
means by which the character 
of humanity — that is to be the 
essence of immortal life — is be- 
ing slowly unfolded. While it 
is our part to struggle against 
all that seems to us evil; to be 
forever at war with ignorance, 
want, pain, and sorrow; yet 
were it not for these things to 
subdue, the finer qualities of 
sympathy, friendship, love, 
strength of will, loyalty, com- 
passion, daring courage, ad- 
venture, and the high excellence 
of heroic action, could never be 
ours. Had God created these 
without our help, by any other 
method, He would have coveted 



THE LAW Of THE and taken 
UNMANIPEST, , ' 

possession ot 

what infinite justice and perfect 
being had bestowed upon His 
neighbor— the operation of the 
Spirit in Time. 

We are continually asking 
God to do for us what God 
must deny, or cease to be the 
just and jealous God, careful 
for the highest good of all His 
children. We are continually 
breaking, in our hopes and most 
virtuous endeavors, either the 
law of the Manifest or of the 
Unmanifest. But because God 
is God, both in Time and Eter- 
nity, no one ever did break 
through these limits that He has 
thrown around His own being, 
in reality. These things stand 
fast. The Divine intent will 
yet become the Divine accom- 
plishment, 



THE LAW OP THE This isthelaw 
UNMANIFEST. that must be 
fulfilled §ven to the uttermost. 
God comes into being through 
these ways. To draw out the 
vision of the Law from the very 
Heart of God is the work of the 
Spirit of Counsel. To bring this 
Law into actual embodiment is 
the work of the Manifest — the 
full travail of the Spirit in all 
men and in all time — until by 
the increase of our manly pow- 
ers we scale the heights and win 
the Eternal City. 

The great victory of the Spirit 
in Time will be the complete 
understanding and embodiment 
of the life and power of Reve- 
lation in man's normal intel- 
ligence and consciousness of 
being. 

The highest excellence of the 
Spirit can only shine through a 

112 



THE LAW OP THE P ure and P er ~ 
UNMANIPEST. feet body. 

The sweetest love and beauty of 
the soul's grace can only be given 
to the noblest strength and most 
universal range of a cultivated 
intelligence. We often see in 
human growth and progress 
faults instead of virtues. It is 
better to be ignorant of God and 
to bravely confess such ignor- 
ance, than to basely conform to 
a popular faith and to weakly 
leave to God the work of im- 
provement in himself and the 
world that God has bestowed 
upon man. Neither God nor 
Truth is injured by denial when 
those who deny are sincere and 
doing their best to know and do 
the right. God's mercy is to- 
wards those who deny, as well 
as to those who affirm. 
Did Godbreak through and re- 



Sm«!L« th,: veal Himself 

UNIiANIPEST. 

to any man 
outside of the order of nature in 
which we all are placed, He 
would at once surrender the sov- 
ereignty of the worlds. It is 
because the greatest boon He 
can give to us is the full respon- 
sibility of searching and finding 
God that there are times when 
the noblest and best of earth for 
a little while find themselves 
without God. Were it not for 
this, God would be a lawless 
despot, whom we might fear but 
never love, and against whom 
it would be wiser to inaugurate a 
strong rebellion than to weakly 
submit to selfish power. 

When man has discovered 
the fullness of God's gift he will 
find its greatest benefaction in 
this law of the Unmanif est, that 
gives to man in Time every pos-* 
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THE LAW OP THE sibleprivi- 
UNMANIPEST. Jege &nd 

share and fruition in the works 
of the Creator. 

Without this, man'scomplete- 
ness is unthinkable. There 
can be no perfection for man 
destitute of self respect and in- 
dividual merit. Should God 
do at any time for man what 
man can do for himself, He 
would break this law of His 
own Infinite Being. This is 
the Law of the Unmanifest. 



"5 



The Law of the Law. 

Exodus XX : 18-26. 

an the popi* saw the thttw- 
Htxinp, and the liflhtninjjs, and the 
wise of the tt limpet, and the moun- 
tain snwhing: and when the people 
saw it, they tenwved, and stwd afa* 
oft grnd they said mtv §tt0Ses, 
$peah th0W with us, and we wilt 
heav: hut let U0t speafe with 
ns, lest we die* §M*d P^ses said 
ttnt0 the pe0ple, mU Ut 
is e0me t0 pwe yon, and that his 
feat may he hefiwe y0tw taees, that 
ye sin U0t* §ind the pe0ple st00d 
afar 0ff, and P^ses dvew wear iu«ta 
the thieh davhness whete <$fld was* 
§M*d the itod said unt0 P0Ses, 
©hns th0u shatt say tint* the ehil- 
dten 0f fstael, |}e have seen that $ 
hare talhed with y0H fxom heaven* 



THE ONE thing great mystery 
needful. of Revelation. 

There is a long time when man 
is overwhelmed with the idea 
of any such close and intimate 
intercourse with God. But 
man must conquer fear. God 
comes in these dark and mys- 
terious ways that the spiritual 
life may be proved and made 
perfect by coming into just re- 
lation with man's intellectual 
and moral nature. Without 
this darkness and liability to 
misconception man could have 
no honorable part in the work 
of creation. Without this fear 
and dread within and without, 
there would be nothing ade- 
quate for the awakening and 
development of the noblest 
qualities possible to mankind. 

By this relationship and 
mutual service of the heavens 



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THE ONE THING to the earth 
NEEDFUL. everything is 

possible. The right relation of 
the two is the very wisdom by 
which God creates. By this 
intercourse the whole nature of 
man is subject to transforma- 
tion until spirit and body, soul 
and mind — so long separate 
states of intelligence and con- 
sciousness — are drawn together 
into a perfect unity. The one 
thing all men most need to 
learn in the religious life, is 
that such intercourse is pos- 
sible and open to all upon the 
same terms. "Ye have seen 
that I have talked with you 
from heaven." This is to see 
that this way of life is not 
merely a thing of the past, but 
a fact within the reach of man 
today. In this dual life there 
must be one ideal kept in view. 
123 



THE ONE THING With this life 
NEEDFUL. there must be 

no more Gods of silver or of 
gold. Silver is the Under- 
standing while gold is the Rev- 
elation. The ideal of existence 
is not to be one or the other 
but of the open life and con- 
tinual exchange and intercourse 
between the two. Revelation 
must rest upon intelligence. 
This is the altar of earth. This 
relation is the very name or 
character of the Lord. Where- 
ever there is such intercourse 
there is the blessing of the 
Lord. The spiritual offerings, 
the flocks of vision, are to find 
place in man's life through the 
intelligent apprehension of 
their meaning. 

An altar of stone is a recep- 
tion of Revelation in the moral 
consciousness. To lift up the 
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THE ONE THING to °i u P on the 
NEEDFUL. stones is to cut 

and shape and fit together sep- 
arate states of consciousness as 
the measure of life's attainment . 
This is to pollute the moral na- 
ture by divorcing goodness from 
intelligence. These two are to 
be free to pervade and influence 
each other. The north and the 
south, as well as the east and 
the west are to come together. 
To go up by steps upon the 
Divine Altar is to make the es- 
sential of Religion an acquaint- 
ance with some system of log- 
ical sequence. Then life rests 
upon creed and system instead 
of upon individual intelligence 
and consciousness. Then is re- 
ligion put to shame by the nak- 
edness of the abstract without 
the concrete, and the truths re- 
vealed unclothed with personal 
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THE ONE THING life and experi- 
needful. ence . The one 

thing needful is a continual in- 
tercourse between the people of 
the heavens and the people of 
the earth, based upon a correct 
apprehension of the order and 
relation that may not be trans- 
gressed between Revelation and 
Intelligence. The full recogni- 
tion of this law and acceptance 
of this life will do more for our 
growth and happiness than all 
other things ever known, or de- 
sired put together. Man is made 
for God and this is the only way 
we can come into our Divine 
inheritance. 



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AN AFTERWORD. 

In closing, I would emerge 
for a moment from the imper- 
sonal into the personal. I thus 
greet you and pass on to re- 
main in spirit with you forever. 
These words are the abiding 
strength of long nourishment 
with the hidden manna. I 
have seen the King in His 
beauty. Mine eyes have looked 
on unutterable things. I see 
the things that are to come. I 
have felt God's heart beating in 
mine and His dear eyes looking 
through mine. I am glad for 
myself and for all. I have 
nothing in truth that is not 
mine and thine. Are you sat- 
isfied ? Let go my hand. I 
will not detain you. Is there, 
however, a sense of amazement 
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AFTERWORD. ^ Confusion ill 

the many voices of 
the hour ? Listen. Perhaps I 
can bring you a word that will 
reduce them all to harmony. 
Do the ways before you seem 
many and divergent ? Look 
closer and you will see the foot- 
prints of the Lord in them all. 
These many divisions of the 
Spirit are the essential ele- 
ments of its unity. God could 
not be one and not be many. 
He is not only the people but 
also the things of this bright 
expanse. After innumerable 
visions the Infinite Voice spake 
in my heart and said: I am the 
car on which you ride ; I am 
the ship on which you sail ; I 
am the many mansions in 
which you reside ; I am the 
the path beneath your feet ; I 
am the speaking bird or beast ; 



afterword, I am the voice that 
speaks and the 
book you read, and all the 
other ways from which you 
draw out the meaning of the 
Word. This interpretation of 
the Ten Commandments, the 
Mighty Law is the fruit of 
much intercourse in sight, hear- 
ing and touch with the Living 
God. This is but a leaf out of 
a larger work of many volumes, 
explaining the Bible from Gen- 
esis to Revelation, and disclos- 
ing the mysteries of life and 
death. Those who from this 
specimen of the word would 
know more should address the 
author or publisher of this 
brochure. God is with His 
People. His People are my 
People, and thy People. They 
are this Mighty Host — ready 
to enter and dwell where there 



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an is the natural in- 

AFTERWORD. . ir .t 

telligence and the 
moral consciousness ready to 
receive — who alone can give 
peace on earth and good will 
among all men. Written in 
the joy of their peace and the 
abundance of their love to all. 



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